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  How to make a clay or terracotta tile roof
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Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 07:37 AM UTC
Arvin “Warthog” Arbolado took the time to write down his technique to build a roof that is common in the Mediterranean areas. In this article you''ll learn that you don''t have to be a master modeler with loads of money to make a very good looking roof !

How to make a clay or terracotta tile roof

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
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North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 07:46 AM UTC
Nice feature. Great to see contribution. This one will help out a number of people.

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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 09:58 AM UTC
Thanks for posting this one. I will try this one myself
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Nebraska, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 11:49 AM UTC
Very cool Warthog, Better than the way I had thought to do it. Cheers Kevin
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Arkansas, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 03:20 PM UTC
Awesome idea. I was just wondering if anyone sells corrugated cardboard without the backing. I've tried doing this before, but I always end up tearing the good stuff trying to get the backing off
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Texas, United States
Joined: January 08, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 03:23 PM UTC
Yes - some paper craft stores and stationers sell full sheets f "corregated finish", which is what I use for this effect...

Bravo for an excellent piece... your's looks much more realistic than any other method I've seen... including cutting drinking straws into sections!
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Slovenia
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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 05:16 PM UTC
very interesting
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Antwerpen, Belgium
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Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 06:15 PM UTC
Darn this is a nice feature, I have already printed it and saved in my map
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Metro Manila, Philippines
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Posted: Friday, June 11, 2004 - 02:38 AM UTC
Nice article! Love it!!
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Visayas, Philippines
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Posted: Friday, June 11, 2004 - 03:00 AM UTC
Very nice indeed. Keep it up.
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Metro Manila, Philippines
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Posted: Friday, June 11, 2004 - 02:38 PM UTC
Thanks guys....hope it will be of use to you

bracomadar: BTW, In order to remove the backing board without destroying the corrugation use a hobby knife. Use the knife to cut those backing board that sticks to the corrugation (similar to removing meat from a bone)....
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Tekirdag, Turkey / Türkçe
Joined: August 21, 2002
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Posted: Friday, June 11, 2004 - 08:02 PM UTC
This feature helped me so much. Thanks. I tried to make tile roofs with lead foils before, but this method is easier when painting and weathering, and much more lighter
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 10:02 AM UTC
Very useful tips. Thanks alot.
Cheers
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Italy
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 10:21 PM UTC
Many thanks Arvin for an excellent feature. I need to build model Italian farmhouses in 1:32 for my slot car track and was wondering how best to do it.
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Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 11:06 PM UTC
this one comes very handy for my ongoing project
so cheap and you can massproduce them
very good
bazooka
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Västra Götaland, Sweden
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 04:17 AM UTC
That´s a nice feature. Thx for shareing.
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Christian
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Nebraska, United States
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 04:29 AM UTC
Great article. Nice to see some stuff that can be done with out shelling out big bucks for those of us who are "frugal", as my wife calls it.
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